Teaching The Austere Academy | Daily Lessons

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: There is a lot of background information given in Chapter 1, relating what has happened earlier in this series. The objective of this lesson is to look at background information.

1) 1) Discussion: Is it necessary to give all the background information since this book is the fifth in the series? What does the author accomplish by giving this information?
2) Classwork: Have the class...
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